Increased Epstein-Barr virus-specific antibody-levels in HIV-infected individuals developing primary central nervous system lymphoma [8]

AIDS

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1664-1666

  Gasser, Olivier ^a   Wolbers, Marcel ^a   Steffen, Ingrid ^b   Hirsch, Hans H ^a,b   Battegay, Manuel ^a   Hess, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; LETTER; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; OPTICAL DENSITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMARY CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, AIDS-RELATED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 34447502020     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282742011     Document Type: Letter

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